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chrishuck

@chrishuck@fosstodon.org

Mechanical Engineer, Cyclist, 3D modeling of all kinds, 3D printing, Linux, programmer. Believer in making things better for everyone

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IceCubesApp, to random
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What is your current icon?

chrishuck,
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@IceCubesApp Same as the one you posted ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

chrishuck, to MLS
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Itโ€™s pretty clear that @mls has a really big problem with referees. Tonightโ€™s match was a complete garbage fire from the referee Boiko. Thereโ€™s no way a match should have 13 yellow cards, let alone the red cards. He completely lost control of the game. 12 minutes of stoppage time at the end because of his incompetence?!

Itโ€™s hard enough to have to beat the other team without also having to beat the referee.

At least the Crew got the draw.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Itโ€™s so upsetting that houses have exterior areas that just look like this.

Itโ€™s like M.C. Escher designed a relaxed west coast gallows with full ocean views.

Creating a really very laid-back sense of infinite dread.

chrishuck,
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@stoneymonster @drdrang @hotdogsladies @joesteel Itโ€™s a real stair down.

h_thoreson, to random
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i'm so glad i still look young enough to get unsolicited career advice from boomers (if you're interested in TECH, have you thought about SALESFORCE? i'm using an unlicensed copy and it just works for me. you could do SALESFORCE. just talk to more PEOPLE. every person you talk to could be the next SALESFORCE.)

chrishuck,
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@h_thoreson Imagine being such a broken person that giving that advice seems like a GOOD idea

hotdogsladies, to random
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This is my niece.

Sheโ€™s fine, I guess.

Whatever.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/style/molly-gaebe-leila-bozorg-wedding.html

chrishuck,
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@hotdogsladies Those are the coolest kinds of photos

shanselman, to Podcast
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Today I released my 900TH EPISODE of the @hanselminutes tech podcast. That's an episode a week, 900 times, y'all. This week is a very special guest THE INVENTOR OF ETHERNET. Check it out, subscribe, review, + above all, please share: https://www.hanselminutes.com/900/from-ethernet-to-geothermal-energy-with-bob-metcalfe

video/mp4

chrishuck,
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@shanselman This episode caused me to send the link to GEO to my dad, who works in the oil and gas industry. He told me they had looked at the geothermal potential of some wells they drilled here in the Appalachian Basin. He said he might have to reach out to them. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

I love how you find people doing new things in unexpected ways. Congratulations on 900 episodes!

h_thoreson, to random
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new song.. https://on.soundcloud.com/VKd8kYGu7FyGy4Vk9

chrishuck,
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@h_thoreson Very cool. I like the repeated tension and release in the beginning because you think itโ€™s going one way and then goes another

MisterMaker, to random
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And everytime I switch jobs I have to do it all over again.

chrishuck,
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@MisterMaker When a company requires this to even download a catalog, they usually immediately fall out of the running for consideration of their products. I mean, I came to your website because I was interested in your product. Now, you put a barrier between me and figuring out if I can use your product?

h_thoreson, to random
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Russia is making it clear that they intend, at minimum, a provocation around the nuclear plant starting on July 5. They have also made credible threats that anyone fluent in Kremlinese would be able to parse of wanting to blow the whole thing up. It's a serious possibility.

chrishuck,
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@h_thoreson Why does is seem like such an unforced nihilistic self-own?

chrishuck, to cycling
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Iโ€™m curious whether anyone else in the community has experienced their Apple Watch giving them a loud noise warning when going fast downhill or when thereโ€™s a pretty good headwind? I get these frequently, and I used to think it was just a weird way that my watch was situated between my sleeve and glove when riding in the winter. It continues to do it with no sleeve or glove interference. Wind can definitely be loud, will sustained descending cause hearing loss?

chrishuck,
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@amd Thatโ€™s the only thing I can figure. I know that different cars get weird pulsations inside the vehicle that can be uncomfortable when you have the window down at highway speeds. I feel like this is happening on the watch at a much smaller scale. Seems like something that would have come up in testing at Apple given how many features there are for outdoor activities on the watch? Maybe if I tell it Iโ€™m doing a cycling workout it will ignore the noise?

chrishuck, to random
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While it felt good to delete my Reddit account, I did find the , , and subreddits to be good. That part will be missed. Itโ€™s too bad that a terrible person can just ruin everything for everyone and not have the self-awareness to realize it.

chrishuck,
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@ianp5a I plan on looking at those alternatives to decide where I might land.

h_thoreson, to random
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this song was my alarm clock in college. i'm sorry, i'm intolerable https://music.apple.com/us/album/scary-monsters-and-nice-sprites/409001929?i=409001935

chrishuck,
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@h_thoreson Absolutely nothing wrong with that

chrishuck, (edited ) to random
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Here in little olโ€™ Akron, OH, there is a cool little company called Tiny Circuits that had an Indegogo campaign that I backed for their TinyTV2 project. I got mine in the mail on Friday and uploaded a few videos from my phone to it. Itโ€™s so wild.

You can even use their video converter app on Linux via WINE!

Call me a happy customer.

https://tinytv.us/

chrishuck, to Engineering
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This morning, I was watching a video about a very technical subject, and the presenter mentioned several times that they wanted to keep the design โ€œsimpleโ€ or โ€œas simple as possibleโ€ without explaining what that meant.

I find this to be a big problem in . People always tell us to โ€œjust make it simpleโ€. My first question is always โ€œSimple for whom?โ€

I can make something easy to manufacture but hard to use and vice-versa. There is no universal โ€œsimpleโ€, just trade offs.

chrishuck,
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@DrSuzanne I believe there is typically an assumption by the person requesting that something be โ€œsimpleโ€ means that it will be easy for the end user, AND, therefore, also easy for the designer. Sometimes, this can happen, but certainly, not always. People also assume that simple=inexpensive. This is also sometimes true.

Many people have no idea how many things they think are โ€œsimpleโ€ to use have enormous amounts of complexity hidden from them allowing that to happen.

chrishuck,
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@brrbrr The thing I think is hilarious is the idea that engineers WANT to make things complex just for the hell of it. Iโ€™m trying to solve YOUR problem based on the (usually, poorly defined) goals you tell me. Generally, the initial assumption is fast and cheap with materials on-hand. Then, add complexity until the actual goal is achieved.

A lot of people think โ€œsimpleโ€ completes the triangle of fast-cheap-good. Most of the time, you only get two of those.

chrishuck,
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@brrbrr I deal with people that think engineers always try to make things difficult for everyone, and theyโ€™re helping everyone by telling us to โ€œjust make it simpleโ€. Because weโ€™ve never thought of thatโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜‚

chrishuck,
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@phf I disagree. It is precisely the understanding that there are almost always trade offs in design that dictates why context matters. Something I can make fast and with parts on hand might get the job done, but it might be ugly and difficult for the end user to operate. If you want it to look nice and be easy for end user, you might have to wait for a longer design phase and parts we donโ€™t already have. Itโ€™s all trade offs that drive decisions. People just donโ€™t like it.

rasterweb, to random
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I once wrote a blog post about the pencil sharpener in the basement... If you know, you know, I guess!

โžก๏ธ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2017/02/19/the-pencil-sharpener-in-the-basement/

chrishuck,
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@rasterweb My first house had a pencil sharpener in the basement workshop. It was such a handy thing to have around.

chrishuck, to random
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Great match by tonight! Always good to hand any team from NYC a loss.

chrishuck, to random
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Bahahahahaha

From: @TomatoSoup
https://mastodon.world/@TomatoSoup/110640348545966181

chrishuck, to random
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What kind of insane person sets their browser to prevent reopening of all previous tabs when you restart the browser? I just learned this is the default behavior on our corporate Edge installation and I canโ€™t change it ๐Ÿ˜ก

chrishuck,
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@tripplehelix I do understand why it can be advantageous. I will often have done a lot of research and have a ton of tabs open and then have to restart for some reason and I donโ€™t want to have to bookmark all of those sites. Itโ€™s nice to just pick up where I left off. Iโ€™m probably most annoyed that I donโ€™t have the option to change it and there doesnโ€™t seem to be a good reason as to why.

chrishuck,
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@tripplehelix Weโ€™ve basically been herded to Edge by corporate IT. They have so many things locked down because theyโ€™re paranoid after a ransomware incident years ago. Many of the things they have in place donโ€™t make sense and actually hurt productivity. I canโ€™t even change my default page to load when I open a new tab.

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